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The FT had its beginnings here in the Ocala National Forest. When built in 1966, it was called the Ocala Trail. Some still call the Ocala portion of the FT by its old name. This section of trail start
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This section of FT passes through the rugged Juniper Prairie Wilderness, land of the sand-pine scrub, ponds, and prairies. The FT receives less maintenance on this section, so the hiker will step over
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This section of the FT passes over three “islands” in the Ocala: Kerr Island, Salt Springs Island, and Riverside Island. These islands are not surrounded by water in the traditional sense, but are isl
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Includes: Ocala North, Ocala South, Lake Eaton Sinkhole. The 360,000-acre Ocala National Forest was the first designated national forest east of the Mississippi River. The Big Scrub, as it is affectio
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The vast open prairies of the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area are punctuated by cypress domes, rounded natural groupings of young cypress trees that thrive in depressions in the landscape. Just a
... Related information:... From the guidebook The Florida Trail: Official Hiking Guide
Lake Marian Highlands
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- 24.4 miles
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This roadwalk connector section approximates the future route of the Florida Trail, connecting Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area with Tosohatchee Reserve State Park with a lengthy roadwalk along Des
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Holopaw
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- 30.1 miles
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Returning to the woods, the Florida Trail enters Tosohatchee Reserve State Park, 28,000 acres of protected lands along the St. Johns River floodplain that include one of the oldest slash pine forests
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Sky Lake
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FL
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- 13.8 miles
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The trail skirts the edge of Orlando Wetlands Park before emerging on Wheeler Road, where you begin a 10.8-mile connecting roadwalk. Within the next few years, this section of trail will be moved off
... Related information:... From the guidebook The Florida Trail: Official Hiking Guide
Lockwood
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FL
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- 25.4 miles
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From Oviedo, the Florida Trail follows the route of the paved Cross Seminole Trail into Winter Springs, where the rail-trail is still under development. Diverging from the rail-trail corridor, you fol
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Oviedo
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FL
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- 22.8 miles
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After coping with the urban mass that is Orlando, it’s refreshing to be back in the woods again. Seminole State Forest is part of a wilderness corridor that stretches north nearly 100 miles. You’ll pa
... Related information:... From the guidebook The Florida Trail: Official Hiking Guide
Sanford
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FL
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- 20 miles
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Welcome to the Ocala National Forest, the heart and soul of the Florida Trail. In October 1966, FTA founder Jim Kern and a handful of hardy hikers painted the trail’s first blaze at the beginning of t
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Lake Kathryn Heights
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- 46.5 miles
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This segment of the Florida Trail is a roadwalk connector kicking off the Western Corridor, an alternate route around Central Florida from the original through-trail route, the Eastern Corridor, descr
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Lake Marian Highlands
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FL
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- 67.5 miles
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Unlike most of the swamps you’ve encountered along the Florida Trail, the Green Swamp is more dry than wet. Encompassing 870 square miles across five counties, it’s a vast watershed of pine forests an
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Rock Ridge
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FL
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- 33.9 miles
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Leaving the Richloam Tract of Withlacoochee State Forest, the trail continues to its westernmost point (less than 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico) en route to the Croom Tract. Plans are in the works
... Related information:... From the guidebook The Florida Trail: Official Hiking Guide
Tarrytown
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FL
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- 20.8 miles
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By following a paved bicycle route, the Withlacoochee State Trail, from Nobleton to Dunnellon, the Florida Trail approximates its future route to connect the Croom Tract to the Cross Florida Greenway.
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Nobelton
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FL
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- 38.6 miles
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In this segment, the Florida Trail enjoys the protection of the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, a broad strip of public space more than a century in the making. Numerous developed trailhe
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Dunnellon
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FL
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- 51 miles
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The northern part of the Ocala National Forest nurtures upland habitats of rolling sandhills topped with longleaf pines and oaks. Wire grass thrives, carpeting the forest floor in a misty haze that tu
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Salt Springs
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FL
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- 24.5 miles
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Following the Kissimmee River north, this segment of the Florida Trail approximates the planned route along the river. It’s currently a combination of dike walks and roadwalks, winding through several
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Buckhead Ridge
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FL
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- 30.6 miles
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With its spreading moss-draped oaks and tall hickory trees, dark floodplain forests of cabbage palms and beautiful riverside campsites, the Hickory Hammock section is considered one of the jewels of t
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Lorida
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FL
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- 35.3 miles
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A former cattle ranch, the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area (which includes the Prairie Lakes Unit) is a wetland restoration project, bringing the hydrology of the region back to what it was befor
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Avon Park
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FL
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- 25.5 miles
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